transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪsenʃəli ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
You use essentially to emphasize a quality that someone or something has, and to say that it is their most important or basic quality. ( FORMAL )
It’s been believed for centuries that great writers, composers and scientists are essentially quite different from ordinary people...
Essentially, vines and grapes need water, heat and light.
= fundamentally
ADV : ADV with cl / group [ emphasis ]
2.
You use essentially to indicate that what you are saying is mainly true, although some parts of it are wrong or more complicated than has been stated. ( FORMAL )
His analysis of urban use of agricultural land has been proved essentially correct...
Essentially, the West has only two options...
ADV : ADV with cl / group , ADV with v [ vagueness ]